Financial Regulation

Effective financial management strategies can help organizations meet their business objectives. The financial management community on BrightTALK is made up of engaged finance and accounting professionals. Find relevant webinars and roundtable discussions featuring financial planning advice from industry thought leaders and insights into optimizing financial reporting, accounting, risk management and value measurement.

During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, and Victor Gaspar, Business Country Manager for Colombia at GMV (Openbravo Certified Partner), will show how proximity technology is shaping the retail industry and how it is delivering great in-store experiences. We will explore the insights those technologies like beacons provide to the physical store personnel as well as the store management and how they enhance the customer experience. In addition, we will also present the limitations and concerns those technologies have and how you can overcome them.

What Will You Learn?
- Different proximity technology application scenarios and benefits obtained from them.
- Real success story of eBeacons technology used in the flagship office of a Spanish Retail Bank.
- How to use these technologies on top of your commerce solution.

During this webinar, Xavier Places, Product Marketing Director at Openbravo, will introduce you to the key benefits and challenges that omnichannel fulfilment represents for retailers today, how leading retailers are performing in this area and what the key aspects are that you must consider from people as well as organization and technology standpoints on your path to leveraging key initiatives like store fulfilment.

What Will You Learn?
- How it helps to improve the customer's shopping experience and retailer business performance.
- What the main trends and strategies followed by leading retailers in this area are.
- How to prepare your business for truly omnichannel fulfilment.

Attending this 60 min briefing will give you an overview of what the regulators require of Senior Managers and what this means to the firm as a whole. There are a number of key considerations and actions that need to be completed - this briefing highlights what they are, your responsibilities and what needs to be done before February 2016

During this webinar, Maarten Tromp, Director of Product Management at Openbravo, Ismael Ciordia, CTO at Openbravo, and Xavier Places, Product Marketing Director at Openbravo, will explain the key drivers of our mid and long-term product roadmap and how our Retail First strategy is shaping our product to deliver a compelling solution to support retailers’ omnichannel strategies, and as a result what are the new features and innovations that build our Strategic Roadmap.

What Will You Learn?
- Key drivers of our mid and long-term product roadmap.
- New features and innovations that will be developed in our products during the next years.

Join us for a look at the more technical aspects of Skype for Business, with a specific focus on System Telemetry, Key Health Indicators (KHIs) and the SDN API.

John Hand, Global Microsoft Alliance Director, will be joined by Matthew Torpey a Microsoft Gold Certified System Communications Engineer to provide a technical deep-dive on how to best manage a Skype for Business environment.

Matthew will also show a live demonstration on how Prognosis can performance manage your Skype for Business deployment, delivering outstanding user experience.

During this webinar, Jon Setuain, Senior Consultant at Openbravo, will introduce Openbravo's solution for managing a subscription-based and recurring billing business and his experience when implementing this solution in a multinational tech giant to manage a 1.2Bn USD cloud subscription business. Gaining full and flexible support to complex recurring revenue models and the ability to evolve to new ones easily as well as reducing time-to-market are key capabilities for this business.

What Will You Learn?
- How to manage a subscription-based business with Openbravo.
- How to manage complex and dynamic metered billing across diverse customers with Openbravo.
- How to ensure billing integration with multiple back-office systems and hardware.
- How to reduce your time-to-market with new products and monetization models with Openbravo.
- The case of a multinational tech giant, who decided to implement the Openbravo Subscription and Recurring Billing solution to manage a 1.2Bn USD cloud subscription business.

Seven years after the onset of the financial crisis, and five years after the Dodd-Frank Act was passed, derivatives reform continues to be a hot – and unresolved – topic.

In this webinar, the speakers will provide an update regarding recent actions by the CFTC and SEC with respect to derivatives, and discuss a number of derivatives and cross border issues. Topics include:

The Financial Conduct Authority's new competition powers and an enforcement focus on wholesale banking are important issues for many financial institutions in the UK. IFLR and Shearman & Sterling presents this discussion on key topics:
• The enhanced self-reporting obligation in respect of potential competition law infringements;
• FCA’s ability to switch between its FSMA and competition enforcement powers;
• Flow of information between the FCA and other regulators (including the EU Commission);
• Choice of FSMA vs Enterprise Act market studies;
• FCA’s ability to resolve issues itself vs make a reference to the CMA;
• Likelihood of FCA Competition Act cases; and
• Civil litigation implications.

During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, will explain how the renewed Openbravo Commerce Suite addresses the demands of retailers and customers as well as the latest industry trends through its powerful and modern store solution. In addition, she will showcase some of the new features included in the latest product release from Q2, which includes loyalty management, price breakdown in cost and margin, discount coupons and several fraud control features.

What Will You Learn?
- How to address the retail industry trends as well as retailers' and customers' demands with a modern store solution.
- Examples of specific features included in the latest product release from Q2.

Microsoft Ignite takes place in Chicago from May 4-8. This sold-out event is the largest and most comprehensive Microsoft technology event.
IR will be there so if you can't make it, join us to hear all the low down of what happened. Key product announcements, new releases and out takes from key speakers.
If you can't be in Chicago, this is the next best thing.

IFLR Women in Business Law Group members are invited to join a webinar on unconscious bias. Topics include:
*Understanding what unconscious bias is and explore causes and effects
* Stereotype threat and organisational bias: concepts to understand in the workplace
* Exploring implications for women working in law
* Techniques for anticipating and mitigating the risks

The webinar will be led by Harish Bhayani, founder and senior partner of PRM Diversity Consultants www.prmdiversityconsultants.co.uk. Harish, a former Big Four consultancy Practice Leader, has specialised as a diversity consultant, trainer and researcher since 2001. His expertise is grounded in some 20 years of prior experience working in large corporations, developing leading edge initiatives in unconscious bias. He is a trustee at homelessness charity Crisis a member of the Diversity Working Group at the CIPR and a volunteer business adviser at the charity Young Enterprise.

Most non-profits seek to maximize the amount they can spend on program work and minimize their administrative spend. One way for non-profits to reduce the cost and the amount of time spent on administrative tasks in the back office is to leverage technology that automates their accounts payable process.

Join Justin Barnes, Regional Sales Director at Concur and our special guest, Wendy T. Dove, Manager of Accounting at the non-profit organization Leadership for Educational Equity, for this short 30 minute client success story webinar. By attending on May 13 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET, you’ll learn how Leadership for Educational Equity automated its AP process and leveraged technology to make the most of its resources.

By joining you will learn:
• More about the latest AP automation from Concur
• How AP automation can save your organization time and money
• How Leadership for Educational Equity leverages AP automation to focus on what matters most

You won’t want to miss the opportunity to hear firsthand the benefits AP automation can bring to non-profits and businesses alike. Register today!

Today retailers face many challenges being immersed in an omnichannel reality where customers’ expectations are much higher than before. During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, will discuss the mechanisms to achieve excellence in daily in-store operations.

What Will You Learn?
- How to get excellence in store operations to deliver great experiences, not only for your customers but also to your store managers and associates.
- Specific feature examples to efficiently handle the store operations like opening and closure, preventing fraud at any point, save-the-sale techniques and many more!

A recent, global poll identified the key concern in deploying Skype for Business was how to deliver an outstanding end-user experience, across an environment with multiple vendors.
This webcast will show you the key insights of how to not only oversee a successful Skype for Business deployment but how to make it work seamlessly with your existing unified communications environment, in turn, delivering an outstanding experience.

The Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) has now been adopted in the EU and most of its provisions were required to become effective in member states as from January 1 2015.

The BRRD harmonises the range of resolution tools available to supervisory authorities in the EU in the event of the failure of major financial institutions. A key cornerstone of the new legislation is the introduction of a new “bail-in” power available to regulatory authorities enabling them to require the write-down or conversion into equity of a wide range of unsecured senior debt as part of the resolution of a failing institution. Uncertainty remains as to the full extent of the bail-in powers and the range of instruments it is likely to apply to and finalised guidance and rulemaking is still awaited on various issues during the course of 2015.

We will consider the scope of the bail-in power and how it might be applied in practice, as well as discussing how this might affect the structuring of financial instruments issued by banks and the possible attitudes of investors in bank liabilities.

During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, and Victor Gaspar, Project Manager at GMV (Openbravo Certified Partner), will explain how retailers can help enable their stores to be smarter and which technologies are helping them today to make this happen.

What Will You Learn?
- The concept of smarter stores and how it is related with the convergence of technologies like mobility and the Internet of Things.
- The importance of physical smarter stores in today's omnichannel reality.

During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, will introduce you to some of the key features that the Openbravo Web POS solution provides, allowing associates and customers to enjoy a great in-store shopping experience. Web and mobile POS with assisted sale and inventory visibility capabilities. Empowered associates and delighted consumers in today’s omnichannel reality.

What Will You Learn?
- 6 key features a web POS solution should have for great in-store shopping experiences.
- Latest new capabilities included in the Openbravo Commerce Platform web POS module.

Digital Identities have become the new perimeter in the fight against cybercriminals. Businesses need to come together to coordinate an effective defence and real time sharing of internet scale intelligence.

* Explosive Cybercrime growth comes from criminals leveraging the internet – how can we use that same leverage to our advantage?
* We can’t trust the endpoint and we can’t trust the user credentials – how do we operate in this new world?
* How can real time sharing of anonymous Digital Identity behavior provide a new type of protection while offering improvements in end user experience?

With Microsoft Lync - soon to be Skype for Business - predicted to become a top-three global telephony provider by 2016 (Gartner), it is no surprise many organizations are either deploying, or evaluating a deployment, of Skype for Business. But how do you measure the success of such an initiative?

In this exclusive presentation Eric Bauer, Global Product Director UC, will be joined by John Hand, a former Microsoft employee of 25+ years who is now IR’s Global Microsoft Alliance Director, to detail the 4 Measures for Success in a Lync/Skype for Business deployment.

During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, will explain the keys to how to effectively create loyalty and what to expect from your commerce solution. Today, engaging customers goes beyond traditional loyalty programs and she will develop on this topic.

What Will You Learn?
- Keys to effectively create a loyalty program.
- What to expect from commerce solutions in regards to loyalty management.

During this webinar, Maarten Tromp, Director of Product Management at Openbravo, will review the benefits of truly modular ERP platforms compared to traditional ERPs, focusing on the main keys for growing business for both customers and partners.

What Will You Learn?
- Benefits of modular ERP platforms.
- Keys for growing your business based on ERP platforms modularity.

We are experiencing a growing "clicks to bricks" phenomenon, where pure e-commerce leaders are opening physical stores in an attempt to get closer to their customers and foster loyalty. During this webinar, Elena Martínez, Retail Specialist at Openbravo, will explore this concept and the challenges faced while highlighting the benefits of this strategy that is being followed by leading online retailers.

What Will You Learn?
- The motivations of pure online retailers to invest in physical stores.
- Technologies that offer the highest impact on physical stores.
- The main challenges faced in the attempt to bridge the offline with the online.

Join us for a look at the more technical aspects of Skype for Business, with a specific focus on Key Health Indicators (KHIs) and Call Quality Methodology (CQM).

John Hand, Global Microsoft Alliance Director, will be joined by Dave Bottomley, Solutions Engineer with 11+ years experience at Microsoft, to provide a more technical deep-dive on how to best manage a Skype for Business environment.